Dance

Firebird

John Taras

Three Sides of Balanchine

George Balanchine

Prodigal Son

Choreography by George Balanchine, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Empty Stage

Concept Carlos Acosta, words and music Benjamin Scheuer,

Winterrreise

Music by Franz Schubert, choreography by Christian Spuck

Dancing Nation

Anna Karenina

Director / choreographer Anželika Cholina, music Alfred Schnittke

Homecoming for North East dance company

17 April 2021

North East dance company Eliot Smith Dance has announced its return to live performances with Homecoming, a series of four new works.

Challenging men’s mental health stigma

16 April 2021

Macho, a new dance film from North East based Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company, confronts the stigma still attached to male mental health problems.

Odedra's solo Rising

16 April 2021

Aakash Odedra's solo show Rising, with choreography by Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Odedra, will open at Curve Leicester before touring.

ROH free Sleeping Beauty insight

15 April 2021

The Royal Opera House will present a free stream of a special Insight from 2016 celebrating The Sleeping Beauty.

Protein promenades En Route

15 April 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's newest dance work, En Route, will be an outdoor promenade piece around their home borough of Woolwich.

Big Pulse new dance commissions

15 April 2021

Big Pulse Dance Alliance, a network of 12 dance festivals and institutions, has launched commissions and activities to develop and strengthen the contemporary dance sector across Europe.

National programme for dancers with Parkinson's

14 April 2021

Danielle Teale Dance has been awarded a significant grant from Arts Council England to expand the reach of its Collective IDentity (CID) Project with dancers with Parkinson’s.

Nominations open for One Dance UK Awards

14 April 2021

Following a record year in 2020, which generated more than 1,000 nominations and reached more than 100,000 people, nominations for the One Dance UK Awards 2021 are now open.

Still dancing in Sadler's Wells exhibition

14 April 2021

Movement in still form is an exhibition of dance photography by Camilla Greenwell for Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage to celebrate International Dance Day.

Rosie Kay première to reopen Birmingham REP

11 April 2021

Birmingham choreographer Rosie Kay’s return to the stage with the première of her new solo work will be the first performance when Birmingham REP reopens after lockdown.

ENB 2021–22 season and company updates

9 April 2021

English National Ballet's new season features Khan's Creature, Rojo's Raymonda, The Forsythe Evening, Nutcracker and a celebratory Emerging Dancer event.

Greenwich Dance awarded £58k grant

9 April 2021

Greenwich Dance has been awarded a grant of £58k from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

DanceWest three new trustees

9 April 2021

DanceWest's new trustees are former Evening Standard and The Independent video chief Mars El Brogy, Frantic Assembly Executive Director Kerry Whelan and wellbeing coach Jon Chu.

Hippodrome and Rambert to broadcast two new works

8 April 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and Rambert have revealed that they will join together to broadcast two new dance works to audiences across the world, Summer Livestream, in July 2021.

My First Ballet: Swan Lake on ENB at Home

7 April 2021

An hour-long, specially adapted version of Swan Lake is now available English National Ballet’s digital platform.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance launch Rep Studios

6 April 2021

New digital platform Rep Studios' first season includes Smile, Islander, two digital premières from Scottish Dance Theatre and a new mini-festival This Is For You Dundee.

Sadler's Wells receives Culture Recovery loan

4 April 2021

Sadler’s Wells has been awarded a loan of £4,250,000 from the UK Government's Culture Recovery Fund.

Rambert School is Moving Forward

3 April 2021

Rambert School's new film, Moving Forward, brings together seven short original dance works choreographed, performed and filmed by the students during lockdown.

ROH Friday Première: Royal Ballet’s Symphonic Variations

1 April 2021

On Friday 2 April, The Royal Ballet will stream Symphonic Variations from 2017, Frederick Ashton’s 1946 piece which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month.

ROH booking for Brecht’s and Weill’s Deadly Sins and Mahagonny

30 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel live from Covent Garden on 9 April.

Impermanence and Bristol Old Vic double bill

30 March 2021

Bristol Old Vic and Impermanence will continue their creative partnership with a new double bill of online dance work.

Launch of Just Us Hip Hop Apprentice Co

30 March 2021

As Just Us Dance Theatre launches its new apprenticeship company with a mixed bill of Hip Hop works by Joseph Toonga, Kenrick Sandy, Shawn Aimey and Shanelle ‘Tali’ Fergus.

Still Touch from Richard Chappell

30 March 2021

Still Touch is a new film version of Richard Chappell Dance's 2018 work of the same name that explores the need for human contact and connections.

Two world premières for Birmingham Royal Ballet at REP

28 March 2021

A partnership between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham REP is to continue with live performances in June 2021 featuring two world premières.

Royal Opera House new season highlights

28 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's first full season since 2019 features 11 new productions—including 5 world premières—and 20 revivals.

PDSW dancing invisibly in the streets

25 March 2021

Pavilion Dance South West will be dancing in the streets with the English première of Elisabeth Schilling's Invisible Dances.

Sadler's Wells May to September 2021

25 March 2021

Sadler’s Wells will welcome audiences back from 17 May with seven productions scheduled up to the start of September 2021.

ROH to stream Royal Ballet Concerto

23 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's next live-streamed Friday Premiere will be The Royal Ballet’s Concerto (2019).

Curve and Khan reimagine Jungle Book in dance

20 March 2021

The Akram Khan Company and Leicester's Curve Theatre are to stage the world première of Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined based on Rudyard Kipling’s story.

English National Ballet launches new apps

19 March 2021

English National Ballet has launched new apps to deliver digital content from its online platform, ENB at Home.

Royal Ballet's Dream streaming

19 March 2021

The Royal Opera House continues its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with The Dream.

Dance x 12

19 March 2021

Newcastle’s Dance City commemorates the twelve months since the UK first went into lockdown with Twelve.

Annual dance festival goes online for second year

16 March 2021

For the second year, the annual Leicester-based Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival is to be staged online, with 11 days of events on offer.

NYDC works digitally with latest cohort

12 March 2021

Run by Sadler’s Wells, National Youth Dance Company, has completed its second fully digital residency, led by Guest Artistic Director Alesandra Seutin.

Richard Chappell Dance new season

12 March 2021

Richard Chappell Dance has launched a new season of live performance and digital and participation work for 2021.

Royal Opera House to open in May

11 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will open to audiences on 17 May 2021 with performances from The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, new work online and an opera in 'hyper-reality'.

ENB School connects virtually with NHS patients and staff

11 March 2021

English National Ballet School has partnered with CW+ charity of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to share ballet performances with patients.

Mark Baldwin and Brandon Lawrence on Elmhurst board

10 March 2021

Elmhurst Ballet School has appointed to its board choreographer and director Mark Baldwin and BRB Principal dancer Brandon Lawrence.

NSCD and Shechter in new partnership

10 March 2021

Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Hofesh Shechter Company have announced a new partnership.

STR lecture: Putting Britain on Point

10 March 2021

The Society for Theatre Research will present an online lecture, Putting Britain on Point: 150 Years of Teaching Dance, from V&A Curator for Dance Jane Pritchard.

Rambert commissions new work for streaming

7 March 2021

Rambert's live-stream programme for 2021 includes work by Jo Strømgren, Marion Motin, Imre Van Opstal and Marne Van Opstal and Benoit Swan Pouffer.

Rambert School returns to face-to-face training

5 March 2021

Following the latest government announcement, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance is to return to face-to-face training from 8 March.

UK donates dance wear to Africa and Guatemala

5 March 2021

Elmhurst Ballet School and Dancing Boutique are sending more than 200 items of dancewear to The Leap of Dance Academy in Nigeria, Africa, and Transformación Ballet in Sololá, Guatemala.

One Dance and Guest continue mental wellbeing collaboration

5 March 2021

One Dance UK and filmmaker Rick Guest continue their collaboration promoting mental wellbeing for dancers with new short film A Dream of Dark & Troubling Things, which looks at rage.

Sadler’s Wells open call for residencies for new and experienced dancers

5 March 2021

Sadler’s Wells has launched an open call for a new Artist Residencies programme, available to both artists with five years’ experience or more and those who have recently embarked on a career in dance.

Greenwich Dance third series of Talking Moves podcast

4 March 2021

Greenwich Dance is to release a third series of Talking Moves, a podcast about dance.

Hippodrome and Rambert to stream Rooms

4 March 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and dance company Rambert are to stream a new production, Rooms by Norwegian choreographer and theatre and film director Jo Strømgren.

ENB releases McMillan Manon online

4 March 2021

English National Ballet has released Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon on its Ballet on Demand streaming service.

Antonucci is new BRB Assistant Director

28 February 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet has appointed Dominic Antonucci, currently Ballet Master with the Company, as Assistant Director with immediate effect, succeeding Marion Tait.

NDCWales releases Plethu/Weave #2

28 February 2021

Three films will be released in March in the National Dance Company Wales and Literature Wales collaboration, Plethu/Weave #2, including the second 'Wales in Germany' commission.

Royal Opera House two new Friday Premières

27 February 2021

Royal Opera House's next two new Friday Premières will be Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations.

Candoco new Chair and first Associate Artistic Director

27 February 2021

Stephen Lightbown will become Chair of Candoco Dance Company in March 2021 and Dan Daw has been appointed as the company’s first Associate Artistic Director.

NI dance company launches Open Space project

25 February 2021

Performing and creative arts centre Dance Associate in Newry, Northern Ireland has secured funding to launch a new project for young people.

Most Free dance documentary

24 February 2021

Most Free is Ellen Hathaway Dance Company's first feature-length dance documentary that investigates "how a community can integrate and connect with the foundations of understanding and compassion even through a pandemic".

Dance shout-out from Showtown

21 February 2021

Showtown, Blackpool’s first museum of fun and entertainment, and Blackpool arts organisation LeftCoast want to hear from dance enthusiasts.

Short film Empty Stage helps BRB to keep dance alive

20 February 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet is to release of a short film, Carlos Acosta's first major digital commission for the company, Empty Stage.

Opoku-Addaie is new head of Dance Umbrella

19 February 2021

Dance Umbrella has appointed Freddie Opoku-Addaie its new Artistic Director and Chief Executive, only the fourth person to hold this position in 43 years.

Royal Ballet's The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering on DVD and Blu-ray

19 February 2021

On the first anniversary of the première of The Cellist, alongside Dances at a Gathering, a recording of this mixed programme is available to pre-order ahead of its release on 26 February.

ROH to mark International Women’s Day

19 February 2021

The Royal Opera House will celebrate International Women’s Day 2021 with events, broadcasts and discussions that explore the lives of women in the industry today.

Dancers’ tour postponed, so they go online

18 February 2021

Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara are to stream their “new dance spectacular” Remembering the Oscars for a three-week period, details at Northampton Royal and Derngate’s web site.

Birmingham REP and ballet company share £15,000 in donations

16 February 2021

More than £15,000 has been given to Birmingham REP and Birmingham Royal Ballet in a Save a Seat campaign, with donations from audiences being match-funded by law firm DLA Piper.

Stars get together for show on World Theatre Day

16 February 2021

Some of the biggest names in theatre, dance and music are to get together for Rise Up With the Arts, a live stream event which will air on World Theatre Day.

ROH streams Young Artists and Friday Premieres

12 February 2021

Royal Opera House 's #OurHouseToYourHouse programme continues with Tony and the Young Artists and a new Friday Premiere stream.

New appointments at Dance Consortium

12 February 2021

Samina Beckford joins Dance Consortium as Programme Coordinator, while Anand Bhatt and Iona Waite become independent directors to its Board of Trustees.

The Place Festival of online works

4 February 2021

The Place has partnered with Chisenhale Dance Space to curate a festival under the theme "How Do We Tune In To Sensation?"

ENB Swan Lake online

3 February 2021

English National Ballet is bringing Derek Deane’s Swan Lake to online audiences via its recently launched streaming service, Ballet on Demand.

ROH premières Puccini and Nureyev

30 January 2021

Royal Opera House has announced two new Friday Premières: Puccini's Il trittico and Nureyev's Raymonda Act III.

Greenwich Dance tours without touring

30 January 2021

For ArtsUnboxed, Greenwich Dance has commissioned six artists to develop new dance work that can be sold to organisations across the country and delivered using local artists.

Street dance and symphonies come together in Philharmonia residence

30 January 2021

Philharmonia Orchestra has appointed House of Absolute its first Artists in Residence.

Line-up revealed for annual Leicester dance festival

27 January 2021

Leicester’s annual dance festival Let's Dance International Frontiers is back for its 11th year with 11 days of in-person, indoor, outdoor and online events.

May Contain Food by Luca Silvestrini's Protein

22 January 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's dance and singing fusion May Contain Food will be streamed in February on King's Place's streaming platform.

Ten ballet schools pledge support for dance students

22 January 2021

Ten leading professional ballet schools have released a joint message of support and reassurance to those applying for places on programmes starting in September 2021.

New dance project by James Cousins

22 January 2021

A short film and virtual gallery, In Search of Sanctuary, will open Dance East’s digital programme from 29-31 January 2021.

Alexia starts Birmingham theatre’s online workshops

22 January 2021

Birmingham’s Alexia McIntosh has kicked off a series of digital masterclasses at the Hippodrome in the city: 25 online workshops for young people aged between 7 and 25.